{"id":3358,"date":"2020-06-01T15:09:21","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T22:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3358"},"modified":"2020-06-01T15:09:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T22:09:37","slug":"hobart-herd-devotional-psalms-31-6-1-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/?p=3358","title":{"rendered":"Hobart Herd Devotional – Psalms 31 – 6-1-20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 31 \u2013\n6-1-20<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Many of the Psalms follow a similar pattern\nof Cry to the Lord, Confession of Confidence in the Lord, Prayer of\nsupplication, ending in Praise and worship. \nThe only problem we have in identifying the event that caused these\ncries for help is that David faced so many situations of traumatic danger and\nbetrayal from his enemies, family and \u201cfriends\u201d that we can\u2019t tell which\nprayers came from which situation.  Maybe\nyou feel like there is so much trauma in your life that the Lord must surely\nget tired of your petitions, requests and cries.  Just take note of David\u2019s songs of prayer and\npraise.  The Lord wants to be there with\nyou in every situation.  He wants to hear\nyour cries, prayers and praise as He listens and acts on your behalf.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   David is again crying out to the Lord to be\nhis refuge, rock and strength against his enemies.(vs. 1-2)  However, he doesn\u2019t just cry to the Lord, but\nHe then declares in confident faith that the Lord is his Rock and he trusts Him\nto protect and deliver him from his enemies.(vs. 3-4)  Oh that I would be like David and commit\nmyself to Him in faith: Psalms 31:5    Into\nThy hand I commit my spirit; Thou hast ransomed me, O LORD, God of truth.(NAS)  I can truly trust in His loving kindness and\ngoodness.  Can I say from my heart these\nwords:  Ps 31:14     But as for me, I trust in Thee, O LORD, I say, “Thou art my\nGod.”(NAS)  David alternates from\nrequest to statement of faith and trust continually throughout this Psalm.  There are times when it seems he will falter\nand give up, but then his understanding and faith in his God lifts him up over\nthe trials he is facing.  <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Almost every Psalm ends with a statement of\npraise, worship and honor to our God!  If\nthere is one thing I have learned to do; regardless of how I feel, or the\nimpossible trouble I am facing, I can begin to connect my problem to the\npromise and protection of the Lord in His Word. \nWhen I do this in my prayers, it turns from doomsday to the joy of the\nLord.  Psalms 31:23-24, 23      O love the LORD, all you His godly ones!\nThe LORD preserves the faithful, and fully recompenses the proud doer.  24       Be\nstrong, and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the LORD.(NAS)  I can let my heart take courage because my\nhope is in the Lord!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

   Father, thank You for hearing my continual\ncries for help, strength, protection and courage.  You never fail to amaze me with Your\npatience, empathy and love for me in my hardest times.  Help me to be able to connect the promise of\nYour word with the problems in my life, so that I can begin to entrust and\ncommit my heart to You.  May You give me\nthe ability to love You as You deserve and put my hope in You depending on Your\nstrength and courage in my life.  In\nJesus name, Amen!  Pastor Rob<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hobart Herd Devotional \u2013 Psalms 31 \u2013 6-1-20    Many of the Psalms follow a similar pattern of Cry to the Lord, Confession of Confidence in the Lord, Prayer of supplication, ending in Praise and worship.  The only problem we …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[142],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3359,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3358\/revisions\/3359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hobart-community-church.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}